LIST: Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF
Kateri/Mary Anne
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Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF List
All comments and critique welcome. I'm looking for:
- additional listings (either new or forgotten)
- other books by the authors listed
- comments on content or quality (short, please)
- anything else you can think of that would be useful
Note: Not all renderings of alternate sexualities in these texts are
positive. Not all the books listed are fantasy/sf, though the majority are.
** PLEASE, EVEN IF YOU ONLY RECOMMEND OR CORRECT SOMETHING, **
** LET ME KNOW IF IT'S FANTASY OR SCIENCE FICTION! **
Many, many thanks...I'm sorry I can't thank you all personally. I'll
keep posting updated lists every once in a while, and the most updated
version will be available on my web page:
http://mud.bsd.uchicago.edu/~mohanraj/home.html.
- Mary Anne
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Garber, Eric & Lyn Paleo
Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternate Sexuality in Science
Fiction and Fantasy (Not at all a comprehensive listing)
CRITICISM:
Across the Wounded Galaxy: Interviews with writers
Delany, Samuel R.
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (contains a critique of LeGuin's
The Dispossessed)
Frye, Northrop
Jamison, Frederick
MAGAZINES:
Amazing Stories
Quick, W.T. - "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" - March
1990
Analog
Byers Edward - "The Disconnect" - August 1982
Turtledov, Harry - _The Great Unknown_ = April, May, June 1991
Galaxy
Varley's "Eight Worlds" stories - mid-to-late 70s
Asimov's
Varley, John - "The Barbie Murders" - Feb 1978
Shepard, Lucius - "A Traveler's Tale" - July 1984
Rainbow, Tom - "The Science Fiction of Sex change" - July 1985
Jablokov, Alexander - "The Death Artist" - Aug 1990
Casper, Susan - "Nine Tenths of the Law" - Jul 1991
Varley, John - "Her Girl Friday" - Aug 1992
Egan, Greg - "Cocoon" (gay protagonist; genetic programming
of sexuality) - recent
F & SF Magazine
Heinlein, Robert - "All You Zombies" - March 1959
Varley, John - "Picnic on Nearside" - Aug 1974
Omni
Shepard, Lucius - "Life of Buddha" - May 1988
Calder, Richard - "Mosquito" - Jul 1990
Penthouse
Ellison, Harlan - "Erotophobia" - 1981
Playboy
Heym, Stefan - "The Wachsmuth Syndrome" - Sept 1972
Wavelengths - Scott, Melissa, Ed. - journal reviewing new GLB F/SF/H
ANTHOLOGIES:
Baen, Jim - New Destinies IX
Flynn, Michael - "Werehouse" - Fall 1990
Editor Unknown - Anthology Unknown
Bickel, Bill - "The Widow and the Body Sitter" (body swapping)
Busby, F.M. - Getting Home
Busby, F.M. - "Road Map" (body swapping)
- "Getting Home" (body swapping)
Carr, Terry - Universe 9 & 10
Varley, John - "Options"
Busby, F.M. - "First Person Plural"
Clute, John, David Pringle, and Simon Dunsley - Interzone 2
Blumlein, Michael- "The Brains of Rats" (bisexual transvestite)
Correas de Zapata, Celia, ed. - Short Stories by Latin
Amercian Women
Naranjo, Carmen - "Symbiotic Encounter" (pregnant man)
Datlow, Ellen - Alien Sex (SF)
Baker, Scott - "The Jamesburg Incubus"
Decarnin, Camilla; Paleo, Lynn; Garber, Eric - Worlds Apart:
An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction
and Fantasy (2nd edition is out)
Del Rey, Judy-Lynn - Stellar 7
Hogan, James - "Identity Crises"
Dozois, Gardner - Year's Best - 7th and 8th
Brennert, Alan - "The Third Sex"
Jablokov, Alex - "The Death Artist"
Elder, Joseph - Eros in Orbit
Scortia, Thomas - "Flowering Narcissus"
Elliot, Jeffrey M. - Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and
Lesbian Science Fiction
Ellison, Harlan - Dangerous Visions
Sturgeon, Theodore - "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You
Let One Marry Your Sister" (excellent)
Etchison, Dennis - Cutting Edge (H)
Wagner, Karl Edward - "Lacunae" (fragmenting transsexual)
Foster, Alan Dean - Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man who was Pregnant"
Gibson, William - Burning Chrome (also contains transgendered
character)
Gibson, William & Shirley - "The Belonging Kind"
Keesey, Pam, ed. - Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories
(10 stories)
Knight, Damon - Orbit 9
Wilhem, Kate - "The Infinity Box"
Martin, George R.R., ed. - Wild Cards series
Joker's Wild (gay character)
Aces Abroad (bisexual woman)
One-Eyed Jacks
(and more)
Rucker, Rudy, Peter L. Wilson, and Robert A. Wilson - Semiotext(e) (SF)
(a collection of "radical" sf published by the Semiotext(e)
postmodernist journal.)
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn - Pulphouse3
Brennert, Alan - "the Third Sex"
Salmonson, Jessica Amanda - Amazons! & Amazons II
Tomoe Gozen series
SAMOIS, ed., - Coming to Power (excellent s/m anthology) (sf/f)
Drew, Holly - "The Seduction of Earth and Rain" (f)
Schrimm, Janet - "Mirel" - (sf)
Sargent, Pamela - Bio-Futures
LeGuin, Ursula K. - "Nine Lives"
Sargent, Pamela - Women of Wonder
Dorman, Sonya - "When I Was Miss Dow" (sf) (body swapping)
Scortia, Thomas - Strange Bedfellows
Carlson, W. - "Dinner at Helen's"
Tan, Cecilia, ed. - Feline Fetishes (bestiality)
- Forged Bonds (b/d, slavery, elves)
- SexMagick (six stories of sex magic)
- TechnoSex (robots/VR) - forthcoming
- Worlds of Women (erotic sf by women) -
forthcoming
(catalog available on-line from Circlet
Press - ct...@world.std.com)
Torgeson, Ray - Chrysalis 1
Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man Who was Pregnant"
Yolen, Jane, ed. - Xanadu (several queer-positive stories)
Fantasy & SF:
Author Unknown (H)
Hot Blood (trilogy of erotic horror - some vampire, some
contemporary; supernatural elements)
Hotter Blood
Hottest Blood
- plus several short stories
Author Unknown (Star Trek):
"Turnabout Intruder" (episode - Kirk gender change)
Adams, Richard (F)
Maia (bisexual women portrayed positively; decadent, extremely
sexual society)
Watership Down
Adams, Robert (F)
Horseclans series (incredibly homophobic - bad guys are all
gay and automatically pederasts; otherwise, excellent
hack & slash, sword & sorcery books)
Aldiss, Brian (SF)
Helliconia Trilogy (sex with subhumans, living phallus?)
The Male Response (novella)
Allan, Margaret (pseudonym for W.T. Quick) (F)
Keeper of the Stone (casual male/male scenes)
The Last Mammoth
Amerika, Mark (F)
The Kafka Chronicles (male prostitution, orgies, erotic cannibalism)
Sexual Blood (s/m, rape, hyperhetero mindfuck (whatever that means)
Anderson, Poul
Eutopia (short story)
The King of Ys series (with Karen Anderson) (Roman myth and magic)
(gay character, homophobic?)
Roma Mater
Andros, Phil
Below the Belt % Other Stories
The Boys in Blue
Different Strokes: Stories
Roman Conquests
Stud: A Novel
Anthony, Piers (SF)
Bio of a Space Tyrant (five book series - mainly straight, but
moves in a liberalized world)
Vol 1 - Refugee
Vol 2 - Mercenary
Vol 3 - Politican
Vol 4 - Executive
Vol 5 - Statesman
Trilogy: (threesome)
Omnivore
Orn
Ox
Pornucopia (bisexual (sorta) male protagonist, good for a
laugh)
Asimov, Isaac (SF) (classic)
The Gods Themselves (three-gendered aliens)
"Playboy and the Slime Gods", appeared in _Playboy_ (human/alien sex)
Asprin, Robert (F)
Thieves' World series, ed.
Myth series (very funny)
Myth-ing Persons
Myth-nomers and Im-pervections
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link
Myth Directions
Myth Conceptions
Little Myth Marker
Hit or Myth
Another Fine Myth
Atwood, Margaret (SF) (good)
The Handmaid's Tale (also made into a reasonably good movie,
although they change the ending)
Baker, Sharon: (boy prostitute) (SF/F)
Quarreling, They Met the Dragon
Journey to Membliar
The Burning Tears of Sassurum
Ballard, J.G.
Crash!
The Atrocity Exhibition
Banks, Iain
Culture series: (bisexuality is most common mode; genetically
engineered society where sex-changing is a relatively
easy process; protagonists are relatively straight)
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
The Use of Weapons
A Gift from the Culture (SF, short story collection)
novella - "The State of the Art"
The Wasp Factory (SF/F/H) (lots of weird sexuality)
Against a Dark Background (SF, nonCulture, reference to
lesbian affair of the protagonist - not his best)
Barker, Clive
Imajaica (oddly-gendered major character)
Barnes, Steven (SF)
Gorgon Child (hermaphrodites?)
Streetlethal
Barr, Douglas (SF)
Space Relations (S/M, slavery - very funny)
Barrus, Tim
Genocide (short story collection)
Baudino, Gael (F) (good new author - one of our own, I think)
Dragon Trilogy (men changed into women - some become lesbians,
some don't, some suicide)
Gossamer Axe (bisexual woman searching for bisexual lover)
Strands of Starlight (bisexual characters in this series)
Maze of Moonlight
Shroud of Shadow (depressing as hell)
Bear, Greg (SF)
The Forge of God
The Anvil of Stars (bisexual protagonist, homosexuality)
de Berg, Jean (pseudonym for Catherine Robbe-Grillet)
The Image (this one isn't SF/F, but...the author is married to
Alain Robbe-Grillet, who writes baroque d/s fantasy)
Berger, Thomas
Regiment of Women (SF) (gender role swaping)
Berthelot, Francis (SF) (gay writer)
La Lune Nore d'Orion
Le Rivage des Intouchables
Bester, Alfred
The Computer Connection (SF, homosexuality, cross-dressing -
faster & funnier than most of his classic works)
Bey, Hakim (F,SF)
Crowstone (pedo)
Bishop, Michael
Unicorn Mountain (secondary character is gay PWA - the other
-characters- are very homophobic, but the author's
portrayal of the gay man is positive)
Block, Francesca Lia (F) (Y)
Weetsie Bat (witches - 1st in series of 4) (one reader notes
that he detested it - irresponsible sexuality)
Witch Baby
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Blumlein, Michael (H)
X/Y (gender change) (odd book.)
Boyd, John (SF)
Sex and the High Command (males are made obsolete)
Bradbury, Ray (SF)
I Sing the Body Electric (collection)
"The Warm Wind and the Cold" ('swishy gay boys')
Bradley, Marion Zimmer (SF/F) (bisexuality accepted, women's society
with many lesbians, oppressions of women)
Darkover series
Thendara House
The Forbidden Tower (poly relationships)
The World Wreckers
The Heritage of Hastur
etc....
Lythande (cross-dressing lesbian protagonist - a character
originally made for _Thieves' World_)
Mists of Avalon (Arthurian fantasy from the point of view of
three women - quite good)
Warrior Woman (very bad!) (F) (numerous lesbian characters)
Ruins of Isis (SF) (numerous lesbian characters)
Survey Ship (SF) (gay, interracial, teen)
The Catch Trap (two male trapeze artists in love)
Brin, David (SF) (good author)
Glory Season (females can clone with male 'spark')
Brite, Poppy Z. (F)
Lost Souls (vampire book with elements of bisexuality)
Drawing Blood (haunted house novel with gay protagonists)
Brunner, John
Stand on Zanzibar (SF, "Homosexuality tolerated, ambivalence
taken for granted" in 'developed' countries - classic,
longish, standard JB)
Bujold, Lois McMaster (SF)
Shards of Honor
Barrayar
Miles Vorkosigan series (hermaphrodite character)
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Vor Game
Ethan of Athos (gay protagonist from a planet of men)
Brothers in Arms
Borders of Infinity (three novellas)
Bull, Emma (excellent author - recommended)
War for the Oaks (F)
Bone Dance (hermaphrodite protagonist)
Falcon
Burgess, Anthony
The Wanting Seed (homosexuality the norm)
Burka, Lauren P. (SF/F)
Mate: And More Stories from the Erotic Edge of SF/Fantasy
(b/d, s/m - available on-line from Circlet Press)
Burroughs, William S.
The Naked Lunch
Busby, F.M.
Star Rebel
Rebel's Quest
The Alien Debt
Rebel's Seed
Zelda M'Tana
Breeds of Man
Rissa Kerguelen (sometimes published as one volume,
sometimes as two, sometimes as three: Young Rissa,
Rissa and Tregare, The Long View)
Butler, Octavia (SF)
trilogy (aliens transform our race - very good)
Dawn
Adulthood Rites
Imago
"Bloodchild" in _Asimov's_ (man impregnated by alien)
Patternmaster
Mind of My Mind
Survivor
Wild Seed
Cadigan, Pat
"Pretty Boy Crossover" (somewhere in Asimov's)
Calder, Richard
Dead Girls (*weird* sexuality)
Califia, Pat (SF) (lesbians +; pretty intense)
Doc & Fluff
Macho Sluts (collection)
Card, Orson Scott (SF)
Songmaster (homosexual pederasty)
Hart's Hope (F) (rape)
The Ender Books
Ender's Game (excellent)
Speaker for the Dead (likewise)
Xenocide (interesting, but weak ending, I thought)
The Tales of Alvin Maker
Lost Boys (child molester)
Treason
Carter, Lin (F)
Tara of the Twilight
Chalker, Jack L. (gender-changing)
Changewinds series: (SF/F)
When the Changewinds Blow
Riders of the Winds
War of the Maelstrom
Soul Rider series: (SF/F)
Spirits of Flux and Anchor
Empires of Flux and Anchor
Masters of Flux and Anchor
The Birth of Flux and Anchor
Children of Flux and Anchor
River of the Dancing Gods series (F)
Rings of the Master series (SF)
Four Lord of the Diamonds series (one planet had denizens able
to switch bodies with anyone in close proximity overnight)
The Identity Matrix (gender change)
Downtiming the Night Side (multiple gender/persona change)
Well of Souls series
Chalker, Jack L.; Resnick, Mike; Effinger, George E.
Red Tape War (SF) (satire, bodyswapping)
Chandler, A. Bertram (SF)
Spartan Plan (all-male colony world with a retrofitted history
to make the inhabitants think they are the original
Spartans - then a mixed-gender ship comes along...)
Charnas, Suzy McKee (F)
Motherlines (tribe of lesbian horsewomen face off the patriarchy)
Walk to the End of the World
Cherryh, C.J. (SF) (bisexual characters - political handicap)
Cyteen trilogy (only a trilogy in US paperback edition)
Rusalka
Chernevog
Yvgenie
Clarke, Arthur C. (SF) (classic, recommended)
Imperial Earth (protagonist is bisexual man - bisexuality norm)
Songs of Distant Earth
2010/2061
Rendezvous with Rama (gay couple)
Cradle (with Gentry Lee) (somewhat stereotypical gay couple)
Cole, Alan and Chris Bunch
The Far Kingdoms (protagonist has a lesbian sister)
A Warrior's Tale (lesbian is protagonist in this book)
Comfort, Alex (author of _The Joy of Sex_)
Tetrarch (land of polybi semi-immortals who are forever
children-just-enough-past-puberty-to-have-sex)
Constantine, Storm (SF)
The Monstrous Regiment (struggle for sexual equality on a
planet slipping from a proto-feminist society to a matriarchal
dictatorship)
Wraeththu series: (humans mutating into hermaphrodites)
This series was recently published in a one volume
edition:
The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
The Bewitchment of Love and Hate
The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire
Hermetech (protagonist is bi female; bi males)
Burying the Shadow (bisexuality the norm)
Cooke, John Peyton
Cooper, Edmund (SF)
Seahorse in the Sky (minor gay character)
Delany, Samuel (highly recommended)
Babel-17 (SF)
Dhalgren (SF) (explicit bisexual scenes, alternative
lifestyles, gay leatherman, s/m)
Hogg (F) (s/m, rape, wilding, gay, not for the faint of heart)
The Jewels of Astor
Neveryona series: (F) (gay man; leathersex; lesbian)
Tales of Neveryon
Neveryona
Flight from Neveryon
Return to Neveryon
The Bridge of Lost Desire
Nova
Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand (SF) (galactic gay love
story; includes a gay bathhouse scene where the main
character makes it with the native (insect-like)
intelligence on his home planet)
Triton (SF) (gay characters)
They Fly at Ciron (F)
Tides of Lust (F) (everybody doing everybody)
"The Star Pit" - in SF-12
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" (highly rec!)
The Motion of Light on Water (autobiography)
Heavenly Breakfast (autobiography)
Disch, Tom
334 (sex in pre-pubescents; strange sex roles)
On Wings of Song
+ some short stories
Douglas, L. Warren (SF)
Bright Islands in a Dark Sea (negative image of homosexual
priests)
Drake, David & S.M. Stirling
The General series: (3 major characters in a family)
The Forge
The Hammer
The Anvil (forthcoming)
The Steel (forthcoming)
Dreher, Sarah
Duane, Diane (F) (bisexuality is the norm; positive; good writer)
Door into Fire
Door into Shadow
Door into Sunset
Door into Starlight (forthcoming)
Wizardry series (juvenile, gay male couple - highly recommended)
So You Want to Be a Wizard
Deep Wizardry
High Wizardry
A Wizard Abroad
Eddings, David (F)
Belgariad series (five books - I'd list 'em, but they're all
the same....IMO)
Mallorean series (ditto)
Elenium series (ditto, incomplete)
The Diamond Throne (and others in the series)
(pederast nobleman)
Tamuli series (ditto)
Elgin, Suzette Haden (SF) (dystopia where all women are slaves)
Native Tongue
Judas Rose
Earthsong
Elliot, Jeffrey
Elliot, Sumner Locke (SF) (gay author)
The Man Who Got Away (time-travel, very positive homosexuality)
Emshwiller, Peter R. (SF)
The Host (bodyswapping)
Short Blade (bodyswapping, lesbian)
Engh, M.J. (SF) (recommended)
Rainbow Man (switched sex roles)
Esser, Kevin (SF)
Dance of the Warriors (pedo)
Fancher, Jane S. (trilogy with bisexual male protagonists)
Groundties
Uplink
Harmonies ofthe Net
Farmer, Philip Jose (bisexual vampires)
Image of the Beast
Blown
Riverworld series, esp.
The Dark Design (lesbian protagonist)
A Feast Unknown
Lord of the Trees/The Mad Goblin
The Lovers
Strange Relations
Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout
Dare
Flesh (uncensored versin in French: Une Bourree Pastorale)
Traitor to the Living (bodyswapping)
Finch, Sheila
Infinity's Web
Foglio, Phil
XXXenophile (adult comic book)
Forrest, Katherine
Dreams & Swords
Daughters of the Coral Dawn
Foster, Alan Dean - Star Trek Log Ten
"The Procrustean Petard" (novelization of episodes with added
material; in one part, Kirk, Spock, Sulu and Uhura are
involved in a tranpsorter accident and minds and
bodies get switched - not so serious; very funny! :-)
Foster, M.A. (SF)
The Morphodite (body shifting)
Franklin, Patrick
The Uncertainty of Strangers
Sea Gift (short story)
Frankowski, Leo (SF)
Cross-Time Engineer (+ 4 more books in the series - homophobic
protagonist goes on and on about how het he is, and
sets up a sort of sexual utopia where he gets to have
sex with almost any woman he wants)
Gearhart, Sally Miller
The Wanderground
Gentle, Mary
Golden Witchbreed (SF) (gender-bending, homosexuality accepted)
Ancient Light (SF) (same as above)
Rats and Gargoyles (F)
The Architecture of Desire (F)
Scholars and Soldiers (F) (short fiction)
Grunts (F pastiche) (interracial orc-elf leather SM dyke action)
Gerrold, David
The Man Who Folded Himself (homosexuality theme, protagonist
has sex with himself)
War Against the Chtorr series (biseuxals, pederasty)
Gibson, William (SF) (cyberpunk)
Sprawl trilogy
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling)
Gladney, Heather
Teot's War
Goldstein, Lisa (historical fantasy, set in Shakesperean times)
Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (excellent book, winner of
the American Book Award) (homosexual protagonist - Kit
Marlowe, and other mentions)
Gomez, Jewelle
The Gilda Chronicles
Gravel, Geary (SF)
Return of the Breakneck Boys (secondary character is a gay man
with AIDS)
Griffith, Nicola (SF)
Ammonite (lesbian - won this year's Lambda Literary Award and
the 1994 James Tiptree Jr. Award for best examination
of gender)
Slow River
"Yaguara", Asimov's March 1995 - (lesbian erotic horror)
'The Voyage South", Red Thirst, ed. David Pringle, GW Books, 1990
"Touching Fire", Interzone #70, 1993
"Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese", Interzone #48, 1991
"Wearing My Skin", Internzone #50, 1991
"Mirrors and Burnstone", Interzone, #25, 1990
"Down the Path of the Sun", Interzone #34, 1990
"We Have Met the Alien", Iron Women, Iron Press, 1990
"The Other", Ignorant Armies, ed. David Pringle, GW Books, 1989
"An Other Winter's Tale", Network, vol. 3, 1986
Haldeman, Joe (SF)
The Forever War (starts out with heterosexuality the norm - as
time progresses, homosexuality becomes the norm. The
'het hero' is considered a pervert by the troops he
leads, who were born hundreds of years later)
Worlds
Worlds Apart
Hambly, Barbara (cruel, insane gay character) (high fantasy)
The Silent Tower
The Silicon Mage
Hand, Elizabeth
Winterlong (quite good)
Hansen, Karl.
"Dreams Unwind." _The Seventh Omni Book of Science
Fiction_.
Harrison, Harry (SF)
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
"Final Encounter" (character from an exclusively male society)
Heinlein, Robert A. (SF)
I Will Fear No Evil (male becomes biseuxal female)
Stranger in a Strange Land (bisexual male protagonist - don't
argue with me on this one - take it to r.a.sf.written)
Number of the Beast
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (clan marriages; line marriages)
Time Enough for Love (bisexual incest, in an odd kind of way)
Friday (bisexual female protagonist)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (homosexual encounter)
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Herbert Frank (SF)
Dune (intimations of a homosexual incident with the Baron)
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune (lesbians in the army?)
Chapter House dune
Hughart, Barry (F)
The Bridge of Birds (excellent novel)
The Story of the Stone
Eight Skilled Gentlemen
Huff, Tanya (F)
Fire's Stone (homosexuality)
Blood Price (bi male vampire)
Blood Trail (as above)
Child of the Grove
The Last Wizard
Jennings, Gary
Raptor (hermaphrodite protagonist)
Aztec (lesbian and bisexual scenes)
Johnson, Toby
Secret Matter (homosexuality in aliens) (won Lambda Literary Award)
Kadrey, Richard
Metrophage (three-way and other alternative stuff)
"Genocide" - appeared in Semiotexte SF (alternative porn)
"The Kill Fix" - appeared in Asimov's (three-way)
Kay, Guy Gavriel (F) (excellent author - one of my favorites)
The Fionavar Tapestry:
The Summer Tree
The Wandering Fire
The Darkest Road
Tigana (effeminate gay character, incest, S/M)
A Song for Arbonne
Keegan, Mel
Death's Head (gay men)
Equinox (gay)
Kerr, Katherine (some titles change across the ocean)
Daggerspell
Darkspell
Dawnspell
Dragonspell
A Time of Exile
A Time of Omens
A Time of War - Days of Blood and Fire
A Time of Justice - Days of Air and Darkness
Kress, Nancy (SF)
An Alien Light (bi alien woman warrior)
Kushner, Ellen (F) (recommended)
Swordspoint (bisexual man and gay man)
Thomas the Rhymer (no bi or gay content, but a great book)
Lackey, Mercedes (F) (popular fantasy)
Arrows trilogy: (gay characters)
Arrows of the Queen
Arrow's Flight
Arrow's Fall
Last Herald-Mage trilogy: (gay protagonists)
Magic's Pawn
Magic's Promise
Magic's Price
Oathbound
Oathbreakers
Winds of Fate
Winds of Change
Winds of Fury
Storm Warning
Knight of Ghosts & Shadows (with Ellen Guon) (triple)
Summoned to Tourney (with Ellen Guon) (sequel to _Knight_)
Diana Tregarde series: (pagan witch)
Children of the Night
Burning Water
Jinx High
Serrated Edge series:
Born to Run (with Larry Dixon) (boy prostitute)
Wheels of Fire (with Mark Shepherd)
Laidlaw, Marc (SF)
Dad's Nuke (gay protagonist)
Lee, Tanith
Flat Earth series (everyone is bi):
Night's Master
Death's Master
Delusion's Master
Delirium's Mistress
Night's Sorceries
Birthgrave trilogy (countries where homosexuality
Stormlord is common)
The Silver Metal Lover (android lover)
Drinking Sapphire Wine (experimenting teens)
Leiber, Justin (SF) (trilogy involve mf body swapping)
Beyond Rejection
Beyond Humanity
Beyond Gravity
Le Guin, Ursula K. (SF) (highly recommended)
The Left Hand of Darkness (neuter alien, except during mating,
when can be either sex; seminal work)
The Dispossessed (some bisexuality, gay characters)
Littell, Jonathan (cyberpunk)
Bad Voltage (gay male protagonist)
Logston, Anne (F)
Shadow
Shadow Hunt
Shadow Dance
Lynn, Elizabeth (F) (classic)
Chronicles of Tornor:
Watchtower
Dancers of Arun
Northern Girl
The Sardonyx Net (SF) (sadism and incest; moderately sympathetic)
The Woman Who Loved the Moon (short story collection)
(also in Amazons!, ed. J.A. Salmonson)
A Different Light (gay male protagonists)
"The Man Who Was Pregnant" (short story)
Maine, Charles Eric
Alph (SF) (parthnogenetically reproducing all-female society)
Marks, Laurie J.
Delan the Mislaid (a world with race of hermaphrodites)
The Moonbane Mage
Ara's Field
The Watcher's Mask (different world; no LBG content)
Martine-Barnes, Adrienne
The Fire Sword (lesbian sex with Celtic goddess)
Maxwell, Ann
Fire Dancer
Dancer's Luck
Dancer's Illusion
Carifil series (may be hard to find)
Name of a Shadow
A Dead God Dancing
The Jaws of Menx
Timeshadow Rider
The Singer Enigma
May, Julian (SF)
The Saga of the Pliocene Exiles: (lesbian character)
The Many Coloured Land
The Golden Torc
The Non-born King
The Adversary
Intervention
Jack the Bodiless (first book in the Milieu Trilogy)
Diamond Mask
Magnificat (upcoming)
McCaffrey, Anne (SF/F) (classic)
Dragonrider series: (implications that some green riders are gay)
Dragonflight
Dragonquest
The White Dragon
The Harper Hall of Pern:
Dragonsong
Dragonsinger
Dragondrums
Moreta (specific incident with gay male dragonriders)
Nerilka's Story
Dragonsdawn
Renegades of Pern
All the Weyrs of Pern
Crystal Singer
Killashandra (bisexual woman character)
Crystal Line (Killa describes someone as resolutely
heterosexual)
"Changeling" (gay protagonist) - in anthology: Get Off the
Unicorn (also contains short story about woman and two men)
McGregor, Loren (F)
The Net (lesbian, gay and bi characters)
McHugh, Marueen F. (SF)
China Mountain Zhang (gay protagonist, positive portrayal, and
a damn good read besides)
McIntyre, Vonda N. (SF)
Starfarers (partnership of two men and two women)
Dreamsnake
Transition
Metaphase
Meier, Shirley
Shadow's Daughter (2nd book in series with S.M. Stirling)
The Sharpest Edge (with Stirling) (lesbian)
The Cage (with Stirling) (lesbian)
Shadow's Son (with Stirling and Karen Wehrstein)
Meluch, R.M. (SF)
Sovereign (bisexual male protagonist)
Chicago Red (bi/gay character)
Wind Child (bi encounter w/ hermaphroditic alien)
Wind Dancers (as above)
Mezo, Francine (female protagonist with alien humanoid)
3 book series - titles unknown
Minns, Eric
Island Boy
Mixon, Laura J. (SF)
Glass Houses (lesbian relationshiip goes sour and a very
entertaining cyber-type story)
Moffett, Judith (SF)
Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream (sexually confused
female protagonist, best friends with gay man)
Penterra (some weird sexuality, including father/son incest,
all portrayed positively)
Moon, Elizabeth (recommended - very solid writer)
Deed of Paksenarrion (pair of lesbians; homosexuality fairly
normal though uncommon, asexual heroine)
Sheepfarmer's Daughter
Divided Allegiance
Oath of Gold
Hunting Party
Sporting Chance (sequel to Hunting Party) (lesbians)
Surrender None: The Legacy of Gird
Liar's Oath
Lunar Activity
Sassinak (with Anne McCaffrey)
Generation Warriors (with Anne McCaffrey)
Moorcock, Michael (classic)
Gloriana (F) (detailed exploration of sexuality)
many, many SF novels which mention bisexuality in passing
Adventures of Catherine Cornelius and Una Persson in the 20th
Century (SF)
Moran, Daniel Keyes (SF)
The Long Run
Emerald Eyes
The Armageddon Blues
The Last Dancer
Mordden, Ethan (F)
"short story, title unknown", in _I've a Feeling We're Not in
Kansas Anymore_ (Devil grants gay man the ability to
change his physical form)
Morrow, James
Nader, George
Chrome
Niven, Larry (SF) (recommended)
Ringworld (ritualized sex between species)
The Smoke Ring
The Integral Trees (lesbian warriors - do the risky work
because they don't reproduce; one of them changes
her mind and becomes the straight love interest
of one of the main characters)
A World Out of Time (aging has been solved, so on Earth,
only the Boys are left, playing and hunting. The
Girls left long ago, to explore space.
Pangborn, Edgar
Davy
Still I Persist in Wondering, ed. Spider Robinson
A Company of Glory (warning: novel was heavily bowdlerized,
by editors who considered it 'too faggoty')
Perry, Steve (SF)
Matador series:
Book 1: The 97th Step
Book 2: The Man Who Never Missed
Book 3: Matadora (lesbian relationship)
Book 4: The Machiavelli Interface
Book 5: The Albino Knife
Book 6: Black Steele
Book 7: Brother Death
Piercy, Marge (SF)
Woman at the Edge of Time (bisexual utopia)
He, She, & It (sexual relationship with android)
The Moon is Always Female (poetry collection - good)
Platt, Charles (SF)
The Gas (obscure sf sex novel) - published by Ophelia Press or
Olympia Press? - difficult to find
Pohl, Frederik (SF)
Gateway (bisexuality is the norm and concern of protagonist)
with C. M. Kornbluth
The Space Merchants (SF, homosexuality, some torture which you
just MIGHT classify as SM - classic, still
interesting; good example for co-authorship)
Pollack Rachel (F)
"Black Rose, White Rose" (short story)
Temporary Agency (lesbian relationship)
Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot 49
V., A Novel
Gravity's Rainbow
Vineland
Slow Learner (short story collection)
Quick, W.T.
Cyberpunk series:
Dreams of Flesh and Sand (SF) (gay villain)
Dreams of Gods and Men
Singularities
- writing as Margaret Allan: (F)
Dreams of the Stone
The Last Mammoth
Reage, Pauline (not SF or F, but fascinating anyway)
The Story of O (I & II) (s&m, lesbians, slavery)
Resnick, Mike
Tales of the Velvet Comet (galactic brothel)
Eros Ascending
Eros at Zenith
Eros Descending
Eros at Nadir
Rice, Anne (F)
The Vampire Chronicles:
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
Queen of the Damned
Tale of the Body Thief
Cry to Heaven
Exit to Eden (as Anne Rampling) (s&m)
Sleeping Beauty series (as A.N. Roquelaire) (s&m)
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beauty's Punishment
Beauty's Release
The Witching Hour (minor gay characters)
Ridley, Philip
Crocodilia [publ: Brilliance]
Rivkin, J.F. (F)
Silverglass series: (two bisexual female protagonists)
Silverglass (good hack and slash)
Web of Wind
Witch of Rhosthyl
Mistress of Ambiguities
Robinson, Frank M. (SF)
The Dark Beyond the Stars (gay protagonist - won Lambda Award)
Robinson, Spider (SF) (homosexuality, bisexuality, s/m, transvestism, etc.)
Stardance (quite good)
Starseed
Time Pressure (scared butch men discovering bisexuality)
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Time-Travellers Strictly Cash
Callahan's Lady (very high-class whorehouse with unusual customers)
Lady Slings the Booze (excellent sequel - puns galore)
Rohan, Michael Scott
Chase the Morning (minor bi character)
Rosenblum, Mary (SF)
Chimera (one definitely and one possibly bisexual protagonist)
Rucker, Rudy (SF)
Master of Time and Space (humorous; protagonist accidentally wishes
for and is turned into Marilyn Monroe look-a-like for part
of story; gender bending)
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn and Kevin J. Anderson (H/F)
Afterimage (gender shift)
Russ, Joanna
The Female Man
Zanzibar Cat (short story collection)
"When It Changed" (also in Ellison's _Dangerous
Visions_, and Nestle's _Women on Women_)
"Mr Wilde's Second Chance"
Extraordinary People (short story collection)
"Bodies"
"Mystery of the Young Gentleman"
Hidden Side of the Moon (short story collection)
"Cliches From Outer Space"
Ryman, Geoff
The Child Garden
The Warrior Who Carried Life (female turned into male, falls
in love with a woman, turns back to female)
Was (gay characters and incest)
Sargent, Pamela (SF)
The Shore of Women (women in vast cities, men in nomadic bans
- love between sexes strictly forbidden; sounds
somewhat like Tepper's Gate to Women's Country)
Venus of Dreams
Venus of Shadows
Scheckley, Robert
Immortality, Inc. (body swapping; was made into a movie with Emilio
Estevez and Mick Jagger)
Schulman, J. Neil (SF)
The Rainbow Cadenza (gay men, scarcity of women)
Scott, Melissa
Mighty Good Road (SF) (lesbian protagonist)
The Armor of Light (with Lisa Barnett) (F) (several gay males)
Dreamships (SF) (lesbian)
Burning Bright
The Roads of Heaven (SF, omnibus) - Woman joins in a three-way
marriage with two men who are lovers; at first for
convenience, and later for love
Five Twelfths of Heaven
Silence in Solitude
The Empress of Earth
Shaw, Bob (SF)
Call Me Dumbo (male turned female in order to generated offspring)
Shea, Robert and Robert Anton Wilson
Illuminatus! trilogy (SF)
Schroedinger's Cat trilogy (vagabond body parts, midgets, and
transsexuality)
Sheffield, Charles
Proteus Unbound (also available in 1 volume - Proteus Combined)
Sight of Proteus (gender swap)
Shirley, John (SF) (gay, lesbian)
A Song Called Youth (aka Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, etc)
Dracula in Love (mutated sexual bodies & hints of S/M)
New Noir (F) (midget sex, necrophilia, decapitation head-fucks, etc.)
Silverberg, Robert (SF/F)
At Winter's End (bisexual woman; twining?; voluntary conception)
Book of Skulls
The World Inside (SF) (highly urbanized, extremely hedonistic
society - procreation sacred, but homosexuality widespread)
The Majipoor Chronicles (instellarspecial sex; positive alternative)
Son of Man (sex changes, sex with tree)
Dying Inside (telepath enters minds of two participants in a
heterosexual sex encounter)
To Live Again (people record memories before death and later
download them into another person; gender swap)
Slonczewski, Joan (SF) (quite good)
Door into Ocean (female society on a water planet; anarchy
fights back non-violently against empire)
Smith, Cordwainer
The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdahl
(women die out; men survive by cloning)
Smith, Thorne
Turnabout (sort of the original body switch story)
Spedding, (Alison) (F) (bisexual female protagonist in sexist and
homophobic society)
The Road and the Hills
A Cloud over Water
The Streets of the City
Spinrad, Norman
A World Between (SF, accepted homosexual & lesbian minorities
and subcultures, some SM - satire on the 'war of sexes',
nicely done)
Stadler, Matthew
Landscape: Memory
Starhawk
The Fifth Sacred Thing (straight, gay, bi, old, young, poly)
Stine, Hank
Season of the Witch (rapist is magically transformed into a
woman as punishment for his crime)
Stirling, S.M.
Marching Through Georgia
Under the Yoke (lesbians)
The Stone Dogs (first real treatment of homosexuality in
trilogy)
Snowbrother (rest of series see Meier and Wehrstein) (lesbian)
Sturgeon, Theodore (SF) (classic) (gay author)
Venus Plus X (gender identity)
"The World Well Lost", _E.Pluribus Unicorn_
More Than Human
Godbody (messianic figure who embodies love to everybody,
male and female)
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
(culturally acceptable incest)
Some of Your Blood (eroticism/consumption of menstrual blood)
"The Widget, the Wadget and Boff" (EXCELLENT, gay character)
"Affair with a Green Monkey (SF, character presumed
gay and treated with condescending tolerance)
Sukenick, Ron (F)
Doggy Bag (s/m, white slavery, hyperhetero)
Sussex, Lucy
"My Lady Tongue", _My Lady Tongue & Other Tales_
(woman from a lesbian separatist colony who is seduced
by a male from outside the colony but who affirms her
lesbian sexuality)
Sweeney, Toni
"Variaition and Man", _Starry Nights III_ (gender-shifting)
Tan, Cecilia
Telepaths Don't Need Safewords (and other stories)
(b/d, s/m, bestiality - catalog available
on-line from Circlet Press)
Tarr, Judith (F)
Avaryan Rising: (high fantasy)
The Hall of the Mountain King (bi mercenaries)
The Lady of Han-Gilen
A Fall of Princes (two rival princes fall in love, one
eventually undergoes a sorcerous sex-change)
Tepper, Sheri S. (innovative and interesting writer - quite good)
Side Show (SF) (hermaphrodites, incest)
True Game series: (F)
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
The Search of Mavin Manyshaped
King's Blood Four
Necromancer Nine
Wizard's Eleven
Jinian Footseer
Jinian Dervish Daughter
Jinian Star-Eye
Northshore
Southshore
The Gate to Women's Country (men and women live separately)
Grass
Raising the Stones
Thomas T. Thomas (SF)
Crygender (futuristic stroy involving an artificially
created, ex-terrorist hermaphrodite)
Tiptree, James (SF)
Starsongs of an Old Primate (short story collection)
Your Haploid Heart
A Momentary Taste of Being
Her Smoke Rose up Forever (short story col.)
Your Faces, O My Sisters!
Houston, Houston, Do Read?
With Delicate Mad Hands
Turner, George
The Destiny Makers (central character affected by a pederastic
relationship with his adopted father)
Vance, Jack (F)
The Green Pearl (second in Lyonesse trilogy - bisexual and
homosexual characters)
Varley, John
Gaea Trilogy: (SF/F) (bisexual woman hero; lesbian and gay char.)
Titan
Wizard
Demon
The Ophiuchi Hotline (SF) (sex change)
The Persistence of Vision (SF)
The Barbie Murders (SF)
Hall of the Martian Kings (SF)
Blue Champagne (SF)
Steel Beach
"Beatnik Bayou"
"Picnic on Nearside"
Vinge, Joan D.
The Summer Queen (F) (homosexual angst-ridden prince, other
homosexual characters)
Outcasts of Heaven Belt (SF) (multi-partner marriages)
Heaven Chronicles (SF) (women prohibited from many jobs due
to radiation hazards and lack of tech to preserve ovum
Psion
Cat's Paw (male bi? catman, some s/m hustling and different sex;
sequel to Psion)
Vinge, Vernor (SF)
The Peace War (Mrs & Mrs Korolev are married lesbians)
Marooned in Realtime (lesbian main characters; murder mystery)
(published together in Across Realtime)
Vonarburg, Elisabeth
In the Mother's Country (assumed lesbianism for women,
prescribed and ritualized herosexuality for men)
Wehrstein, Karen
Lion's Heart
Lion's Soul
Shadow's Son (with Shirley Meier and S.M. Stirling)
Weiss, Margaret (SF)
Star of the Guardians series (positive recurring gay character)
The Lost King
King's Test
King's Sacrifice
Weiss, Margaret and Tracy Hickman
Rose of the Prophet trilogy (positive gay characters) (one of
the better of their less-than-impressive series)
Wilhelm, Kate
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Williams, Walter Jon
Aristoi (bisexual protagonist)
Hardwired
Wilson, Colin
The Space Vampires (was made into a bad movie)
The Schoolgirl Murder Case
The God of the Labyrinth
Sex Diary of a Metaphysician
The Philosopher's Stone
Wittig, Monique
Les Guerillieres
Wolfe, Chris Anne (F/SF)
Shadows of Aggar (lesbian encounter)
Woolf, Virginia (classic, excellent)
Orlando (sex-changing across time - recently made into a
visually stunning movie)
Wyndham, John (SF)
Consider Her Ways (men wiped out...only women left on
the planet - all lesbians)
Wright, Helen (SF)
A Matter of Oaths (bisexuality is the norm)
Yolen, Jane (F) (good storyteller)
Sister Light, Sister Dark (gay themes)
White Jenna
Briar Rose (In the Fairy Tales series - excellent -
prominent gay character/gay experience under Nazis)
Cards of Grief (homosexuality)
Zelazny, Roger (very good author)
Lord of Light (characters switch sex as easily as bodies)
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